पुमान्नैवैति यद्गत्वा बिलस्वर्गं गतो यथा । प्रत्यग्धामाविद इह किमसत्कर्मभिर्भवेत् ॥ १३ ॥
puman naivaiti yad gatva bila-svargam gato yatha pratyag-dhamavida iha kim asat-karmabhir bhavet
- puman
- a human being
- na
- not
- eva
- indeed
- eti
- comes back
- yat
- to which
- gatva
- having gone
- bila-svargam
- to the region of the lower planeary system known as Patala
- gatah
- gone
- yatha
- like
- pratyak-dhama
- the effulgent spiritual world
- avidah
- of the unintelligent man
- iha
- in this material world
- kim
- what benefit
- asat-karmabhih
- with temporary fruitive activities
- bhavet
- there can be.
(Narada Muni had described that there is a bila, or hole, from which, having entered, one does not return. The Haryasvas understood the meaning of this allegory.) Hardly once has a person who has entered the lower planeary system called Patala been seen to return. Similarly, if one enters the Vaikuntha-dhama (pratyag-dhama), he does not return to this material world. If there is such a place, from which, having gone, one does not return to the miserable material condition of life, what is the use of jumping like monkeys in the temporary material world and not seeing or understanding that place? What will be the profit?